[Digikam-devel] How to compile svn version with language files ?

[Arnd Baecker]

On Fri, 10 Nov 2006, Fabien wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I discovered one problem with the local installation :
> if digikam is not installed on the system *and* that there's already a
> KDE program running (eg kde desktop, konqueror, etc...), digikam won't
> work properly because of "unknown protocol" (digikamdates,
> digikamalbums, etc...).
>
> Fortunately, there's a workaround : KDEDIRS must be defined before the
> 1st kde program running. For kde desktop, it's possible to use a
> ~/.profile that contains the KDEDIRS variable.
>
> I guess there's a problem when kdeinit starts without this extra path,
> it's already too late to define KDEDIRS.
>
> Does somebody know if it's possible to update it on runtime, or to start
> digikam within a new context ?
>
> It would be better, because now one need to restart KDE when one want to
> modify this KDEDIRS...

Hmm, that's interesting - this could explain, why I sometimes
had problems of the "unknown protocol" type. I never really
understood when this happened.... ;-)
Sometimes starting kdeinit manually did work for me.

Best,

Arnd